{"id":2285,"date":"2013-12-05T05:22:47","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T10:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/?p=2285"},"modified":"2016-10-19T09:02:51","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T13:02:51","slug":"caroling-time-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/2013\/12\/caroling-time-of-the-year.html","title":{"rendered":"Caroling Time of the Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a Sicilian Hymn that I don\u2019t hear too often at Christmas time. It&#8217;s strikingly lovely and I would like to share the words with you:<\/p>\n<p><b>O Thou Joyful Day<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cO thou joyful day, O thou blessed day, Gladsome, peaceful Christmastide. Earth\u2019s hopes awaken, Christ life hath taken, Praise Him, O praise Him on every side.<\/p>\n<p>O thou joyful day, O thou blessed day, Gladsome, peaceful Christmastide. Christ\u2019s light is beaming, Our souls redeeming, Praise Him, O praise Him on every side.<\/p>\n<p>O thou joyful day, O thou blessed day, Gladsome, peaceful Christmastide. King of all glory, We bow before Thee, Praise Him, O praise Him on every side.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a Sicilian Hymn that I don\u2019t hear too often at Christmas time. It&#8217;s strikingly lovely and I would like to share the words with you: O Thou Joyful Day \u201cO thou joyful day, O thou blessed day, Gladsome, peaceful Christmastide. Earth\u2019s hopes awaken, Christ life hath taken, Praise Him, O praise Him on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":429,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[1192,877,1193,1191],"class_list":["post-2285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community_world","category-smorgasbord","tag-caroling-hymns","tag-god-and-satisfaction","tag-peace-at-christmas","tag-singing-christmas-carols"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Caroling Time of the Year! - Everyday Spirituality<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/2013\/12\/caroling-time-of-the-year.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Caroling Time of the Year! - Everyday Spirituality\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Here is a Sicilian Hymn that I don\u2019t hear too often at Christmas time. It&#8217;s strikingly lovely and I would like to share the words with you: O Thou Joyful Day \u201cO thou joyful day, O thou blessed day, Gladsome, peaceful Christmastide. Earth\u2019s hopes awaken, Christ life hath taken, Praise Him, O praise Him on&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/2013\/12\/caroling-time-of-the-year.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Everyday Spirituality\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-12-05T10:22:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2016-10-19T13:02:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Cheryl Petersen\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@cherylpetersen\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Caroling Time of the Year! - Everyday Spirituality","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/2013\/12\/caroling-time-of-the-year.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Caroling Time of the Year! - Everyday Spirituality","og_description":"Here is a Sicilian Hymn that I don\u2019t hear too often at Christmas time. It&#8217;s strikingly lovely and I would like to share the words with you: O Thou Joyful Day \u201cO thou joyful day, O thou blessed day, Gladsome, peaceful Christmastide. Earth\u2019s hopes awaken, Christ life hath taken, Praise Him, O praise Him on&hellip;","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/2013\/12\/caroling-time-of-the-year.html","og_site_name":"Everyday Spirituality","article_published_time":"2013-12-05T10:22:47+00:00","article_modified_time":"2016-10-19T13:02:51+00:00","author":"Cheryl Petersen","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@cherylpetersen","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/2013\/12\/caroling-time-of-the-year.html","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/2013\/12\/caroling-time-of-the-year.html","name":"Caroling Time of the Year! - Everyday Spirituality","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/#website"},"datePublished":"2013-12-05T10:22:47+00:00","dateModified":"2016-10-19T13:02:51+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/#\/schema\/person\/5f61c15bc03b38172723cefb1475d1bb"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/2013\/12\/caroling-time-of-the-year.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/2013\/12\/caroling-time-of-the-year.html"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/2013\/12\/caroling-time-of-the-year.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Caroling Time of the Year!"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/","name":"Everyday Spirituality","description":"Beliefnet Voices - Cheryl Petersen","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/#\/schema\/person\/5f61c15bc03b38172723cefb1475d1bb","name":"Cheryl Petersen","description":"Cheryl Petersen engages and advances divine Science, interpreting harmony to the universe. Cheryl's book is, \"21st Century Science and Health.\"","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.HealingScienceToday.com","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/healingsciencetoday\/","https:\/\/x.com\/cherylpetersen"],"url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/author\/cherylpetersen"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2285"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3598,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285\/revisions\/3598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}